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I’ve had this blog for a very long time, but it’s going through a change again. Alvear.com will mostly be about my personal life with just a few bits on digital media and how it affects my life. My other blogs, Digital Media Bulletin and DVR Bulletin, focus on Internet video and next generation TV, respectively.
Yes, there’ll be lots of cross-posting and talk about digital media here, but I’d like to keep it a bit separate. Hopefully, I can achieve this goal.
Alvear.com will still remain the place where I post pictures from my mobile phone, however. For some weird reason, my phone the Sprint Mogul (HTC PPC-6800) cannot send picture mail. Even though I’ve signed up with Sprint for picture mail. Apparently, Sprint has decided to disable Sprint Picture Mail on this phone. Although there used to be a work around by installing a third-party application, that no longer works. It looks like Sprint has shut down that loophole for good.
Instead, Sprint said I can just go to the Sprint web site and send mail from my phone’s browser. Uh, no way. That’s too clunky and it takes for ever to log-in, upload the picture and send it out.
The better solution, I’ve found, is to integrate Flickr with this blog. All I do, is take a picture on my phone, then use my phone’s email and send it to a special email address that is created for me by Flickr. The picture is automatically posted on the blog of my choice and is added to my Flickr account at the same time. Pretty nifty, eh?
Not sure how many people know about this, but I guess not every has a blog (yet).
I’m a bit of a shutterbug (as you can tell from my Flickr site) so I like it when there’s an easy way to upload pictures to my phone site.
Anyway, thanks for reading and tuning in!
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